BURKE

Burke

Burke is an English variant of a surname that is common in England and Ireland which originates with the Cambro-Normans.

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burke

Noun

  1. Variant spelling of berk.

Verb

  1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.
  2. To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.


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